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SHOPS

Other Name

Flats

Location

535-541 TOORAK ROAD, TOORAK, STONNINGTON CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The building at 541 Toorak Road is of regional and possiblystatesignificance as a fine and substantially intact example of theOldEnglish commercial mode of the interwar period, and for itsdominantrole within the importnat Toorak Village Group of Old Englishshops.Itis of additional significance as a fine example of thecommercialworkof Robert Bell Hamilton, a prominent commercial anddomesticarchitectin this period and leader in the use of Old Englishmodes intheinterwar years. The building at 541 Toorak Road is importantforitslandmark position within the Toorak Village Group, and, as partofthatgroup, as a contributory element within a stylistic groupwhichisrelatively rare within the Greater Metropolitan area. Theyarequitepossibly the grandest example of an Old English orTudorRevivalsuburban commercial premises in Victoria, and are certainlythebestexample of the mode in Stonnington.

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